This week, as part of the FY 2026 budgeting process, Trump White House shared a draft version of his budget application for NASA with the Space Agency.
This initial version of the administration’s budget application calls for a decrease of about 20 % of the agency’s budget in the board, which is about $ 5 billion from the total topline of about $ 25 billion. However, the majority of the deductions are focused on the agency’s Science Mission Directorate, which oversees all planets, Earth Science, Astro Physics Research, and more.
According to the “Passback” documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency’s science programs will reduce the fund by about 50 %. After the agency received $ 7.5 billion for science in FY 2025, the Trump administration has proposed only 9 3.9 billion to the Science Topline budget for the coming fiscal year.
Details of deductions
One of these tips was: by cutting two -thirds of astronomical physics, up to $ 487 million; By cutting more than two -thirds of helicopters, up to $ 455 million; Cut more than 50 % in Earth Science, up to $ 1.033 billion; And 30 % of planets are cut into science, which is $ 1.929 billion.
Although the budget ongoing missions such as the Hubbles Space Telescope and the James WebSpace Telescope will continue to support the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope very expectedly, this is equal to the two world -class equipment that is already fully collected and fully collected in two years.
The document states that “Passback Hubble and James support the continuous operation of the web space telescope and assume that no funds have been provided for other binoculars.”